{"id":467,"date":"2018-11-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baronedefensefirm.lawblogger.net\/blog\/grand-rapids-getting-ready-to-arrest-more-marijuana-impaired-drivers\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T14:39:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T18:39:44","slug":"grand-rapids-getting-ready-to-arrest-more-marijuana-impaired-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/grand-rapids-getting-ready-to-arrest-more-marijuana-impaired-drivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Rapids Getting Ready to Arrest More Marijuana Impaired Drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that the recreational use of marijuana is lawful in Michigan many area police departments are getting ready to identify and arrest more THC impaired drivers.\u00a0 For example, the Grand Rapids Police Department has requested federal funding that will allow them to send additional officers for DRE training.\u00a0 According to Fox17 West Michigan, Grand Rapids currently has 5 DRE trained officers, which is a small fraction of the 130 officers trained throughout Michigan.<\/p>\n

The new law presents many problems for law enforcement, including the detection and arrest of marijuana-impaired drivers.\u00a0 The tools used by the police for alcohol enforcement, such as roadside or preliminary breath tests and Standardized Field Sobriety Tests simply don\u2019t exist specifically for marijuana.\u00a0 This leaves the police at something of a disadvantage when it comes to the enforcement of laws aimed against intoxicated driving, including those high on marijuana.<\/p>\n

The DRE program has been around for decades, but Michigan\u2019s police officers only started getting training as Drug Recognition Experts a few years ago.\u00a0 Now that marijuana use is legal DRE training seems like more of a necessity.\u00a0 This is because the DRE program claims to allow officers to determine the category of the drug a driver has consumed and allows the officer to correlate that drug with impairment.<\/p>\n

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Now that the recreational use of marijuana is lawful in Michigan many area police departments are getting ready to identify and arrest more THC impaired drivers.\u00a0 For example, the Grand Rapids Police Department has requested federal funding that will allow them to send additional officers for DRE training.\u00a0 According to Fox17 West Michigan, Grand Rapids […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-owi"],"yoast_head":"\nGrand Rapids Getting Ready to Arrest More Marijuana Impaired Drivers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"With the legalization of marijuana across Michigan, some cities have prepared by training more officers to recognize the signs of impaired driving.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" 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